10th January - Preparation for the fantastic finale

On 10th January we went into school and continued preparations for the fantastic finale.  All invitations have been sent out and we were quite nervous about the celebration.  We videoed the children reflecting on the project and hope to show this at the presentation - it should help to alleviate the nerves of getting up and talking in front of people.  Final tweaks were made on the podcast - it really is fantastic.  We needed someone to introduce the project to the parents and thought of T.  It turns out that he can't come though so B steps up to the mark.  His confidence has grown so much over the course of the few months we've worked with them.

Fingers crossed it all goes well on Friday - and that the children  and guests turn up!

Here are some words from our university tutors in response to our email below:

Dear Creativity Team, Creativity Tutor and AAs,

We have some very exciting news about our creativity 3 project, as we have now finished recording the podcast to propose to The  School in January.

As you know, we have been working with eight Yr9 pupils to help raise their literacy attainment, through the pupils producing their own radio broadcast. Their finalised version includes: News, Weather, Sport, Comedy, Celebrity Gossip, Interviews, Soaps, songs and their own jingles. The three of us are currently finalising the podcast and editing the last few features.

We would like to invite you all to celebrate with the children for the Fantastic Finish. The Yr9s will be having a private gathering to share their work and prose that the school continue to make a live radio broadcasts. The aim is that the Yr9 pupils will then be able to become the radio experts and help run the radio station in the future!

The preliminary date for the celebration is Friday 14th January, 3pm, at The School. If there is anyone you feel we may have forgotten to invite please let us know :)

If you haven't seen our blog recently there a sneak preview of the podcast and many photos etc... The link is http://raisingattainmentinliteracy.blogspot.com/

Thank you,

Helen Goodall, Ollie Hughes and Sophia Koiston.

Dear All

Thank you for your invitation. By the way, the blog is superb - a truly digitally literate, multimodal experience!

Kind Regards

Carole

Great - in my diary, keep me posted. Do we need to do certificates for the children? if so, please can you send list of names and exact name of project (Diverse FM?)

D

From: D

How exciting and well done! I'll see if I think I might make it nearer the time if that's okay!

C

© Sophia Koiston, Oliver Hughes and Helen Goodall 2010